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-- Abraham Lincoln The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. I drink no more than a sponge.
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-- H. L. Mencken Employment It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Employment
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
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-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Employment "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Employment
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
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-- Sydney Smith "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
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- Robert Frost Employment
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
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-- George Santayana Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Employment "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
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He who limps is still walking.
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-- Guy Kawasaki Employment
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
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-- Margaret Fairless Barber Employment "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
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-- Sioux Indian Prayer Employment
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
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- Richard Bach Employment "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Employment
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-- Hunter S. Thompson The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
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-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine What do you take me for, an idiot?
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-- Anonymous Employment
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
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-- H. L. Mencken The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
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